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A handbook to the history of PHP language

I read this somewhere that PHP is a programming language every developer should know. The blog kind of fascinated me though I do not belong to a computer science or information technology background. Being a researcher and especially from a mathematical sciences background, curiosity and inquisitiveness comes free with the Degree certificate. So I started collecting information to satisfy my knowledge-craving through a universal helpline known as the WWW…. and through a friend of mine who is working in the web development sector in a hi-tech firm. Whatever noteworthy points I collected in my information basket and moreover the ones I remember till this day (because it has been over a few months since I last researched on this topic) I have tried to enlist below. I hope it proves helpful to many who are still unaware of this brilliant technology or might be seeking some assembled information on PHP programming language as an introductory handbook.

Ξ PHP known as : Personal Home Page

Ξ Previously known as : Hypertext Preprocessor

Ξ Year of origin : 1995

Ξ Creator : Rasmus Lerdorf

Ξ Reason for development : replacement to a set of Perl scripts needed to maintain the Personal Home Pages

Initially created as the tool to creating lively and interactive web pages, PHP has come a long way to be used as the most preferred open-source and general-purpose scripting language which uses either object oriented programming or procedural programming or both or both.

It is such widely used that it has been the profession of about 5 million PHP developers globally as per current records with a comparatively growing salary trend over years.